If you are a
physician and are reading this newsletter, chances are you enjoypracticing
medicine. You are curious enough to
be looking "outside the box" for a better understanding of what ails your
patients and then finding methodsof helping them. You probably find that exploring all
the possibilities is rewardingand satisfying,...perhaps even fun.

I dare say this is not true of all our colleagues. I am now of an age where I see some of my
generation retiring - perish the thought! What is it that they don't like about
practicing medicine?

Others seem to never lose their passion for practice, (and
even more encouraging)their appetite for learning. I know of one physician in particular who
could be an example to us all and I would like to use this newsletter to honour
him as well as to say something about learning neural therapy.

The physician who I am referring to is Fred Cenaiko MD of Wakaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada. Wakaw is a little place in northern Saskatchewan (on Canada's prairies) and Fred has
been its only physician for 53 years.
This means that he has done all the things that country docs did years ago such as
delivering babies, removing gall bladders, setting broken bones, treating
medical conditions acute and chronic,fixing sore backs, counseling, etc., as
well as serving as town mayor and taking part in church and philanthropic
activities. For a short biography,
scroll down through this site: http://www.ucc.sk.ca/programs/nbuilders/2004/index.html

Fred is a soft-spoken, humble man and rather than embarrass
him further by dwellingon his many
other accomplishments, I would like to
concentrate on reporting those aspects of his life that might be of help to
those practicing (or contemplating learning) neural therapy.

Even decades ago, Fred was somewhat of a legend to Canadian
prolotherapists,although most of us had never met him. He had been practicing prolotherapy sincethe
1960's and with the Christian Medical Society made annual trips to Honduras
delivering prolotherapy and other medical care to the hinterlands.

Fred was in his late 70's when I first met him; by chance we
were sitting side by side on a flight from a medical meeting in Las Vegas. He had been intrigued by a lecture on neural
therapy that I had delivered at the conference and he wanted to learn
more. Not long after this conversation,
he attended one of my two-day seminars and took to neural therapy like a duck
to water. He was able to understand and
use autonomic response testing almost immediately, even applying it to select
the appropriate antibiotic for his patients with bladder infections.

Fred was as excited by his new-found skills as a
wet-behind-the-ears medical school graduate.
He purchased a Tenscam and was soon identifying and treating
interference fields in deep autonomic ganglia.
He lives two thousand miles from me but we often have telephone chats
during the middle of a practice day discussing interesting cases. In fact, here is a report of one of his
recent cases:

A 52 year old lady with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome presented to my office
in 1994 walking on her knees. It was rather pathetic to see her in that
position. She was treated with
prolotherapy injections with some improvement at first. Later this improvement was less noticeable
although the patient felt more comfortable after these injections and persisted
with the prolotherapy. She was
still unable to walk, able only to transfer from wheelchair to bed and
vice-versa. In September of 2007, in
addition to the usual prolotherapy of
the lower thoracic spine and sacroiliac joints, an episiotomy scar was injected with lidocaine. At her next visit in February 2008, she was
walking and had started to dance. Further episiotomy scar injections have
resulted in continued improvement and she is now walking reasonably long
distances. (She had not walked in 20
years). She is overjoyed and is now for the first time able to dance with her
sons.

This is a remarkable case by any standard. (I personally have found interference fields
in episiotomy scars to be rare). Perhaps
as remarkable as the case itself however is the physician who cured this
woman. He developed the skills to be
able to help her at a stage of his life when many people have been retired for
many years.

I am sure that we can all share Dr Cenaiko's satisfaction in
this case's outcome and be encouraged to know that the "fun" of learning and practicing medicine can last a life-time.